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...dismay of Establishment Washington. They are country boys who have come so far, so fast, that the red clay of their native Georgia still clings, as it were, to their shoes, their accents and their lifestyles. They relish politics more for the pleasure than the power, more for the gambol than the glory. They are almost indecently at ease in the White House; nobody has told them what a somber place it is supposed to be. Though they may not reflect the substance of the Carter presidency, they are the living image of its down-home style...
...calls for baroque extravagance and Berger provides plenty. Esoteric words ("canescing," "superfetation," "glabrous") gambol freely with lowlife slang. Natalie Novotny, Wren's girl friend, refuses his offer to pay for dinner because he has already picked up the Czech. Objects and people are described in loopy, gargantuan locutions. A chandelier becomes a "hippodrome for silverfish"; an incidental character has "the dental terrain of a boar...
...bargain $110 per person, including hotels, meals and guides for a week, groups of 40 tourists will gambol through mechanized mine shafts, mephitic chemical plants and the computer-guided rollers of Krupp's behemoth steel mill in Essen. Lest romance wilt amid the furnaces, adventurers will be whisked away for interludes at centuries-old castles above the once-green valley. Club Med officials hardly need run scared. Still, some 5,000 tourists have signed up to see the Ruhr...
...throughout the long afternoon the adversaries were obvious. The liberators played frisbee and football on one side of a string marking the boundary, making joking references to the "fleas," while the Fly Club members stood on their land near the club veranda, sipping drinks and watching the other students gambol on the lawn...
...guests in an ugly rape-and-robbery incident. A third-floor room was serving as an all-night gambling den, with sex available as an added lure. At least 13 men and women, some of them registered guests, made their way to room 330 for the night's gambol. Around 7 a.m. Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole their money, watches and jewelry. As a vicious finale, they raped one of the women. The two men then locked the victims into the room's closets and bathroom...